Re: [PATCH 2/2] driver core: fix statics initilisation

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 04:29:01PM +0100, Willy Wolff wrote:
> Thank you for your review.
> 
> I follow https://kernelnewbies.org/FirstKernelPatch to write this patch.
> It's not stated that checkpatch.pl is for new patches only. Moreover,
> https://kernelnewbies.org/FirstKernelPatch#Running_checkpatch.pl suggest to
> run over the entire file.

FirstKernelPatch is a good thing to do in drivers/staging/, not anywhere
else in the kernel tree unless you _KNOW_ the maintainer of that
subsystem is ok to take tiny cleanup patches like this.

thanks,

greg k-h